Protective device for cooking utensils.



' "J. w. CARTER. PROTECTIVE DEVICE FOR COOKING UTENSILS.

APPLICATION FILED 0OT.27.-1909.

' Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

' dESTAVAILA'BLE coPv -W D STATEg PATENT OFFICE:

WJ'OHN W'. QART'ER, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

altw'homfit may Ctntfiw. Be it known, that I, J OHN Current, a.

'tizeh' oft-he United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn,county of Kings, and 'te fofgNew York, have invented a new fut"Improvementin Protective De- Coohing Utensils, of which the tolit; adescription.

s invention relates to protective de cc tor conning utensils, andparticularly H tide vices adapted to be used on gas and oil 's mes, orother stoves when the flame nn- 1 ,pinges directly upon the device orutensil.

v ,Qi i o ig tlie objects of my invention may he noted the following: toprovide a simple, cheap vand ettective device for preventing thecontents of any cooking utensil from being burned. or scorched or'thevessel injured by the flame; to provide a device of the character statedhaving a chamber wherein the air or gas is confined and becomesintensely heatedby the flame, thus increasing its etl'm :tivenessand-producing quicker results; to provide a device with means which willllli'OtttlCQ an even distrilmtion of the heated gas within the chamberthereof and cause uniform heating of the top member of v the device; andto provide a device of the character stated which is reversible and canbe used either side up according to the results desired.

With the above objects in view and others which will be noted during thecourse of this description, my invention. consists in the parts,:teatures, elements and combinations of elements as hereinafterdescribed :md claimed.

In orderto illustrate my inven tion I have provided drawings whereinFigure l is a top plan view of a device embodying my invention; Fig. 2is a bottom plan view of said device; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3B of Fig. and Fig. 4 is a sectional detail oi another form of myinvention,

in the drawings, '1 indicates one of the plates and 2 the other of whichmy device is t'niliPOSttl, each plate having a margmal liange 3 whichtitsnugly one upon the other and enable the 'ilates to be secured togetherby any suitable means so to term the chamber ,4. The plate 1 isnon-foraminous and is ]'irovided with cmicentric grooves 5 which givestrength thereto and also serve the purpose when that side is up, ofcatclr ing anything that: boils .over in cooking raozrncr vn DEVICE- FORciooxme UTENSILSV.

,Specification of Letters Ifatent. Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

Application filed October 27, 1909. Serial No, 524,796.

and retaining the same so as to preventit falling upon the burner 01'stove. Also bo1led-over materials cannot reach the innally extendinghoods 7 of any suitable size and height, said hoods having the functionof stopping the progress of thettlame and causing the heat of the sameto be diffused or distributed within the chamber 4; The

hoods also impart strength to the plate and Q the adjacentapertin-es'itl freely admit the heat of the flame to the chamber. Theplate 2, preferably, is'also provided with a plurality of internallyextending supportingtcats 8 which may be formed, as shown in Figs. 2 and3, by deflecting the material of the plate to procurethe'imperforate.openings t), or as shown in Fig. 4t, to provide aperture10. In either case, the material so deflected will be extended intoengagement with the inner surface of the plate 1. These teats arearranged in sutlicient number to prevent any weight or excessive heat oneither plate from depressing or warping said plate or plates. The hoods7 and teats S are arranged relatively in any desired manner and may beprovided in any numher. I prefer to arrange the hoods and teats incircular series and all on one plate, as shown in the drawings, since itcheapen's the n'mnutacture and simplili'es the assembling (nierations. v

From the foregoing construct-ion, it will be seen that an e ntialfeature is the provision of a chainher closed at one side and open atthe other wherein the products of cmnhustion can be retained. and becomein t'enselyheated,when the device is used with its foraminous side tothe flame; or which,

when the device is used. with its closed side to the flame, will permitthe heat to e freely and uniformly radiated; In the 1.

mode of use, the device will hecmne highl and. rapidly heated and itsheat retained and the contents of the utrinsil thereon can he quicklycooked without. scorching or burning. 'In the second mode of use, thec0ntents of the utensil will be subjected. to a lesser degree of heatbecause the top of thechamber will be open and radiation permitted, thesaid contents cooking more slowly as is desired in many instances. Thereversible character of the device and the means for preventing theplates from warping or becoming depressed are important features ofmvrini 'ention.

Another important feature of my invention is the diffusing, or heatdeflecting, hood arranged over an aperture for preventing the flame frompassing into the chamber 4 and, by arresting said flame, reducing itstemperature and eliminating its flame-character. The arrangement of saidhoods, as shown in the drawings, is effective and hence important,though not absolutely essential, since by arranging them in concentriocircles with the open sides thereof toward the circumference of thedevice, an

equal distribution of the heat in all radial directions is provided for.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. A protective device for cooking utensils composed of two plateshaving cooperating means for securing the same together so as to form achamber between them; one

of said plates being rovided with a plurality of apertures; an one ofsaid plates having curved open sided hoods arranged in cooperativerelation to said apertures, said hoods having their open sides towardthe circumference of the device for diffusing the heat radially.

2. A protective device for cooking utensils composed of two plateshaving cooperating means for securing the same together so as to formachamber between them; one of said plates being provided with aplurality of apertures therein; and one of said plates having open sidedheat diffusing devices arranged in concentric circles in said chamber,said diffusing devices having their I open sides toward thecircumference of the protective device, whereby heat passing through theforaminous plate will be equally distributed in the chamber and directedtoward the periphery of the device.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence oftwo sub-" scribing witnesses.

JOHN W. CARTER. Vitnesscs CHAS. MoC. CI-IAPMAN, MABEL C.-I'I1LLOCK.

